NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 20, 2023

Naturally, they are promoted into a management role. There’s just one problem, they’ve never managed others or received formal management or leadership training to prepare them for this new opportunity. In fact, it’s one of the most significant challenges new managers and nonprofit leaders tell us about.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MARCH 19, 2025

Ask managers to practice active listening and acknowledge employees who share their thoughts, no matter how small. If employees feel disconnected or isolated from their peers, their productivity, willingness to collaborate, and job satisfaction may suffer. This behavior can lead to low morale and weaker collaboration within teams.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s Elevate Conference is your opportunity to come together, spark new ideas, and cultivate the connected communities needed to drive meaningful change. Using data management to enhance decision-making and operations. 2025 is the year your nonprofit organization needs to take its future seriously.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although a growing body of research shows that inexperienced and unprepared first-time managers can be costly for organizations, many individual contributors continue to be promoted into management roles without the proper training, mentoring and support. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the fall 2024 Certificate in Leadership class.

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Ann Green

MARCH 10, 2025

Use a learning management system. Its easy to assume that only corporations and large nonprofits operating in multiple locations need a learning management system (LMS) to help train and onboard employees. For example, during the first week of onboarding, managers could meet with new hires for 15 minutes every day to answer questions.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 9, 2020

When Cathy White shared with our Mentoring Program participants the collaborative process she went through to create her communications strategy, I knew other communications directors would be interested in hearing about it too. At this point, we had two major teams and I wanted to collaborate with both. Cathy White. I can prioritize.

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Affnetz

MAY 21, 2024

Camp Management Software | How to Run a Successful Camp / By Bala Guntipalli Introduction: In this comprehensive guide, we’ll dive into the world of summer STEAM camps, exploring the benefits, planning strategies, and the role of camp management software in ensuring a successful and memorable experience for both campers and organizers.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2024

AI can help your team with many aspects of fundraising and management —as long as you leverage it strategically. Sector-specific fundraising needs informed by unique data, such as managing alumni giving at universities or grateful patient programs for healthcare organizations. Collaborative ) as your foundation.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

At a time of a leadership transition, planned or unplanned, more and more organizations are using interim leaders (aka interims) to help the board address organizational challenges, large and small, that may have existed during the tenure of the previous leader. Independence and objectivity were essential.

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Leadership Nonprofit Leadership Culture Participation and motivation 69

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Staff who collaborate with board members to find the unique strengths and connections of each person are enriching their organization. Mary’s Pence accompanies grantees on their social justice journey with informational webinars, potential funders details, nonprofit management resources, a mid-cycle check-in meeting, and more.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 27, 2025

These headlines portend a larger, more subtle trend that is just beginning to reshape philanthropy, and which has important implications for donors of all magnitudes, wealth managers, donor advisors, and the social sector writ large. Women are more collaborative: Women are more likely to engage in collaborative giving than men (e.g.

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Philanthropy Collaborations Management Environmental 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2024

By SSIR Editors To make progress on complex societal challenges, we need good leadership. But to develop innovative solutions—and to implement these solutions at the scale of the problems—we also need to reimagine what good leadership means. We invite you to lead with us. Ethics and Nonprofits by Deborah L. Rhode and Amanda K.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 22, 2025

The truth is, many successful nonprofits empower leaders to manage their own department budgets. In this article, well explore why financial management is a shared responsibility and how nonprofits can use this strategy to drive their missions forward. Solutions : Frame shared financial management as a way to advance the mission.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

According to expert Shabnam Mogharabi, keynote speaker at our recent Nonprofit Leadership Conference , gratitude is the most important element when it comes to creating more joy in our lives and at work. I’m excited for all the opportunities ahead and thankful for the amazing team I get to collaborate with every day.

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Anedot

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Position Summary: The Senior Operations Manager is a leadership role responsible for the day-to-day operations of the food recovery program as well ensuring efficient process flows, managing a team and achieving impact goals set by the organization. Manage training and performance evaluations.

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Management Food Environmental Insurance 52

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Of course, qualities such as financial expertise, legal knowledge, and leadership are all welcomed and useful additions; however they are not in place of the most important quality — caring. Will they make phone calls? Return emails? Will they take the time? Will they focus on the goal/mission?

Ethics 106

Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 106

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 24, 2021

But the problem is that when executive directors and other senior staff don’t provide that kind of leadership, there’s a gap. Project Management. And yet comms staff absolutely need internal project management coordination to be successful. Of course, it’s usually not their job, technically.

Leadership 319

Leadership Collaborations Management Nonprofits 319

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Regular training, open conversations, and diverse leadership help everyone feel respected and valued. Encourage team-building activities that foster understanding and collaboration. Offer mentoring, leadership development workshops, and training tailored to nonprofit careers.

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Culture Recruitment Insurance 98

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JUNE 5, 2024

With multi-generational staff and varying levels of experience, nonprofits must navigate these divides to foster collaboration, innovation, and shared success. Encouraging open dialogue and fostering a culture of curiosity and continuous learning are also key to promoting knowledge-sharing and collaboration.

Collaborations 215

Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management Culture Leadership 215

NonProfit Leadership Center

JULY 31, 2023

6 Reasons Funders Should Invest in Nonprofit Training & Development As a nonprofit that exists to support the capacity, growth and success of other nonprofits, the Nonprofit Leadership Center believes leadership and lifelong learning are inextricably linked. READ NEXT: Beyond Employee Training: How to Create a Learning Culture 2.

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Nonprofit governance and management Governance Collaborations Leadership 238

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When board members blur the lines between governance and management, they inadvertently sabotage the organization. The nonprofit sector is already a high-pressure environment, and when boards meddle in daily operations, it creates chaos, demoralizes leadership, erodes culture, and derails mission-critical activities.

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Nonprofit governance and management Governance Leadership Nonprofits 104

NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 6, 2023

Here at the Nonprofit Leadership Center, we believe spring is the perfect time to make plans for your personal and professional development. April 2023 Level Up Your Leadership: How to Become the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow — April 4 Are leaders born, or is leadership something you can learn? REGISTER NEW! REGISTER NEW!

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Nonprofit governance and management Culture Leadership Nonprofits 288

Fundraising Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Read more in Take The Lead on women in politics That stress and political anxiety can lead to reduced productivity at work, extended absences from work, breakdown of collaboration across teams, and a failure to produce required outcomes and meet deadlines. “In APA’s 2024 Stress in America survey, 77% of U.S. The APA study shows, “Many U.S.,

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Non-Profits Culture 117

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 27, 2021

Last week, we shared that we found in the 2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report that a majority of nonprofits said they did more communications planning (63%) and that the level of internal collaboration on the communications workload went up (57%) as a result of the pandemic. We refer to this spectrum as CALM not BUSY.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Ensure that your organization is in compliance with all applicable employment laws , it has written policies to guide leadership toward such compliance, and it considers policies that address employee wellbeing and participation in leadership. Dissatisfied employees heighten legal risks.

Public and Social Policy 121

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The increasing numbers of people of color in these leadership positions has been a visible sign of the sector’s equity growth spurt. We spoke to more than a dozen leaders of color in philanthropic leadership working at the forefront of equitable philanthropy. Similarly, under the leadership of CEO John H.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 111

NonProfit Leadership Center

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Nonprofit Leadership Center is thrilled to announce two well-deserved promotions for staff members Meriel Martínez and Jamiel Maze. Meriel Martínez Assumes New Position as Director of Programs & Inclusion Meriel Martínez has been promoted to director of programs and inclusion at the Nonprofit Leadership Center.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Collaborative. when she thinks about the Certificate in Nonprofit Management graduate program at the University of Tampa. Two mentors at the Nonprofit Leadership Center recommended the Certificate in Nonprofit Management,” Erin recalls. “I Empowering. Transformative. I decided to go all-in.”

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Nonprofit governance and management Law Universities Nonprofit Management 239

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 19, 2023

By Elikem Tomety Archer & Jessica Harrington In 2017, as part of her participation in the youth leadership program Global Citizen Year , Dora—an 18-year-old from Huntington Beach, California—spent seven months in Thiadiaye, Senegal. Leadership program projects are not typically designed with the long term in mind.

Leadership 125

Leadership Participation and motivation Collaborations Health 125

NonProfit Leadership Center

JANUARY 31, 2023

That’s the most important lesson Erica Monet Li says she learned from participating in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s Certificate in Leadership program. Leadership is a continuous growth and learning experience. Through effective collaboration, you can empower others to bring meaningful change or reach your team’s goals.”

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NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 6, 2024

Melissa Morin Director, University of South Florida Foundation Melissa Morin, director at the University of South Florida Foundation, is one of 23 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship. ” Harold Bryant Jr.,

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 3, 2023

By Lisa Frantzen , Jared Raynor & Hannah Taylor The social sector generally considers leadership development a good investment, especially when it comes to cultivating systems-level change. But ask leadership program developers and evaluators, “What is leadership?”, So why is it so hard to do?

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Leadership Health Collaborations Foundations 133

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

AUGUST 15, 2023

It was during this time that William Jewell College introduced the Nonprofit Management Leadership degree, and Nicole became the very first student to enroll in the program. Nicole’s passion for making a lasting impact in education motivated her to transition into partnership coordination and volunteer management within KCPS.

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Public and Nonprofit Management Homelessness Collaborations Education 246

Candid

JANUARY 7, 2025

As senior manager of impact at the Maverick Collective by PSI, I tell potential donors that my role is to align their passions with work that is strategic and meaningfulnot to create programs simply to secure funding. Establishing a dynamic of deep engagement requires intentionality, leadership buy-in, and an enabling organizational culture.

Collaborations 96

Collaborations Culture Leadership Values 96

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to Ernest Hooper, renowned storyteller and nonprofit leader in Tampa Bay, it’s collaboration and shared knowledge. As nonprofits continue to emerge from a challenging few years, the Nonprofit Leadership Conference is like a charging station for the nonprofit sector. Every participant walks away with renewed promise."

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Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Participation and motivation Collaborations 130

Bloomerang

MARCH 14, 2025

When the finance team, program staff, board members, and leadership arent on the same page, donors can sense the disconnect, and there is a higher attrition rate. When fundraising teams are not in sync with leadership, programs, finance, or the board, the ripple effects extend beyond the internal organizationthey reach donors as well.

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